Parents Problem Solving
Bromley Heath Infants
PS
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Gather/Organise
What do I know?
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Identify
What is the task?
Learn from experience
What have I learned?
Communicate
Tell someone
Problem Solving
Evaluate
How well did I do it?
Implement
Do it
Generate
How many ideas
can I think of?
Decide
Which is the best
idea?
Types of Problems
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Listing all possibilities
Finding rules and patterns
Diagram and Visual puzzles
Logic problems
Word Problems
Listing all possibilities - Y1
Jug of Orange
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A jug holds 10 glasses of orange juice.
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Emma fills some glasses for her friends.
Ben fills some glasses for his friends.
There are 3 glasses of juice left in the jug.
How many glasses could Emma and Ben each have filled?
Finding all possibilities
Year 2
(book based)
Giraffes Can’t Dance
Some lions, hippos and giraffes have come to the waterhole.
There are 10 animals altogether and at least 2 lions and an even
number of hippos.
How many of each type of animal could be there?
Find all the different ways?
Balloon Puzzle
Jessica and Simon were blowing up balloons for Gareth’s birthday.
There were at least two of each.
Some balloons had 3 spots on some had 5 spots.
There were 31 spots altogether.
How many balloons had 3 spots and how many had 5 spots?
What if there were 24 spots?
What if there were 65 spots?
Repeating Patterns
What pattern can
you see ?
What will come
next ? Why ?
What about this pattern ?
Finding Rules and Patterns –Year 2 – Fruity Pyramid
(Handa’s Surprise)
Handa stacks her tangerines in her basket in a pyramid. The
bottom layer of the pyramid looks like this
The pyramid has four more layers.
How many tangerines are on each layer ?
How many are in the pyramid altogether ?
Logic Puzzles
Choose or make a mathematical image.
Describe it for a colleague to draw/make
Word Problems…..
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Kajal has 10p more than me. I have 38p. How much does Kajal
have?There are 18 gloves in the cloakroom. How many pairs of
gloves might that be?
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There are 12 biscuits in a pack. Sam ate ¼ of them. How many
did he eat?
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Tom’s small birthday cake is divided equally between four
people. What fraction of the cake do they each get?
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I think of a number and add 10. The answer is 68. What is my
number?
Today…
ICT problems with Beebots
Numicon problem solving
Logic problems
Visual problems
Domino puzzles